Cardinal Marx: German Bishops Favor Allowing Communion for Divorced/Remarried

Catholic Culture ^ | 12/22/14

[marshmallow]

The president of the German bishops' conference has said that the bishops favor allowing divorced and remarried Catholics to share in the Eucharist.

Cardinal Reinhard Marx said that most bishops support 'differentiated solutions that do justice to the individual case and under certain conditions allow admission to the sacraments.” Cardinal Marx-- who is also a member of the Council of Cardinals-- had signaled his own support for the "Kasper proposal" during October's meeting of the Synod of Bishops. But he took an additional step by saying that the German episcopal conference as a body would back the proposal.

[Arthur McGowan]

Why is it that the other two Gospel accounts of that teaching of Jesus do NOT contain any exception whatsoever?

When the Gospels contradict one another, why shouldn’t the majority win?

[Arthur McGowan]

The difference is that I am not arguing that a single verse of Scripture is all one needs in order to settle a complex issue.

The reason I cited the NAB translation was to illustrate another tenable interpretation of the "exception."

Scripture was not written as an encyclopedia or catechism. It was never intended that the reader was to go to it with discrete questions, and find discrete answers in discrete verses. In the Scripture itself, Jesus never utters a syllable that suggests that His Church was to be a body of people consulting written material. (What a preposterous idea, when books would remain monstrously expensive for another 1500 years.) What Jesus did was choose apostles to go out into the whole world and TEACH, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

Every few years, a news item will appear about some poor soul who lets his Bible fall open at random, determined to "obey God," reads the verse that says, "...cut off your hand..." and does so.

You seem to approach the Gospel in much the same way.

[Iscool]

Why is it that the other two Gospel accounts of that teaching of Jesus do NOT contain any exception whatsoever?

It doesn't need to...There are a lot of things written in Matthew that are not in the other Gospels...But to confirm it, Jesus put it into Mat. 5 as well...

When the Gospels contradict one another, why shouldn’t the majority win?

C'mon...There's no contradiction there...Not even in the least...

[Iscool]

In the Scripture itself, Jesus never utters a syllable that suggests that His Church was to be a body of people consulting written material.

Mar_14:49 I was daily with you in the temple teaching, and ye took me not: but the scriptures must be fulfilled.

Act 17:11 These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.

I believe just these 2 verses alone prove you wrong...

The written words of the scriptures is referenced 291 times at a minimum...

[Iscool]

In the Scripture itself, Jesus never utters a syllable that suggests that His Church was to be a body of people consulting written material. (What a preposterous idea, when books would remain monstrously expensive for another 1500 years.) What Jesus did was choose apostles to go out into the whole world and TEACH, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit.

So every bible ever written was illegitimate...Every manuscript your religion got its hands on is illegitimate...There is no bible written by the Catholic Church...

Even your catechism is preposterous...

And when the apostle John says the scriptures were written so that you may know you have eternal life, John was lying...Nothing was really written for you to know you have eternal life...

[Salvation]

It won’t happen.